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Archive for March 25th, 2011

Stardust delivers valuable fuel data prior to shutdown

March 25th, 2011 by

NASA’s Stardust spacecraft sent its last transmission to Earth at 0033 UTC on 25 March, shortly after depleting fuel and ceasing operations. During an 11-year period, the venerable spacecraft collected and returned comet material to Earth and was reused (as Stardust-NExT) after the end of its prime mission in 2006 to observe and study another comet during February 2011.
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SumbandilaSat tumbling but still taking pictures

March 25th, 2011 by

South Africa’s SumbandilaSat, launched 18 months ago, is tumbling in orbit after a reaction wheel failure. It is still usable to some extent, though.
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More JAXA satellite support for disaster mitigation in Japan

March 25th, 2011 by

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) set up a satellite communication connection using the Engineering Test Satellite VIII “Kiku No. 8″ (ETS-VIII) to support disaster mitigation measures following the Tohoku Region Pacific Ocean coastal earthquake.
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Google TV On DirecTV

March 25th, 2011 by

DirecTV subscribers can subscribe to the amazing Google TV service. Google TV brings subscribers TV programming, web content, on demand movies and many more. Google TV is a joint venture by Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech.

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Internet TV to TV Connection

March 25th, 2011 by

These days, it isn’t a problem in case you…Read more

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